No.....

What function you referring?

Acer 3820TG, Acer 4741G, Acer 4820TG, Asus A42Jv, Asus A42Ja, Asus N82Jq, Asus N43Jq, Lenovo Y460, Sony EA16, Toshiba M645?

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Sep 22 2010, 12:18 AM

If you include the weight, then yes
excluding the weight, those others are mainly better

Well, its spec is the best for a 1.4KG notebook....

Depends on you, you prefer more performance or portability...
Do you game?

The extreme of both is Vaio Z
The rest is sacrifice portability for more performance, in term of gaming...

The cheaper version of Vaio Z is Acer 3820TG, but you got lower quality screen, build and heavier(1.8kg), but better GPU, better cooling system(2 fan) and cheaper price (half of Vaio Z)...

The Acer 3820TG has ATi HD5650 which equivalent with nVidia GT335M, while the Vaio Z only has GT330M....
and some of 3820TG can overclock its i5 CPU to 2.8-3.0GHz, so its really value for it

Overclocking is mainly making your component to run faster from its intended speed, while how much it can overclock, it depends on your component quality, some can overclock higher, some can't even overclock.

For CPU, their clocks is determined by multiplier and FSB (C2D)/ BCLK (Core i3/i5/i7)
e.g. C2D P8700 = 9.5 x 266MHz = 2.53GHz

Since for most CPU, their multiplier is locked, except the extreme series, we can't do anything to it, so the only option is change the FSB/BCLK to higher MHz..
e.g. Core i5 450M with 2.4Ghz is 18 * 133Mhz, we increase the 133MHz to 160MHz, then we achieve 18*160Mhz = 2.88GHz, which brings it faster speed than i7 620M
The risk? Higher temperature and unstable machine if you overclock too much...
CPU dead is almost none since we are not playing with voltage in this case...

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Sep 22 2010, 01:49 AM

Vista driver should work in Win 7
but better find latest driver since your driver could dated years ago..

Better install the update, you never know what kind of security hole left in your windows...

Its white...

I thought they already update it?

You can use Vista drivers.
and it seems need some specific order installation...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/4871823-post60.html

Just CPU..

Around late september...

2-3 hours ?

^SA/SB line?

What entire S line ?

Its SA/SB...

Refreshed Z still couple months more, with the SA might be the temporary replacement for current Z then only come out the new Z....